Word: midday
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Anyone stepping outside in Beijing around midday on June 18 would have noticed something slightly amiss. The sky was dark enough for cars to use their headlights, and the air was as thick as a smoky bar just before last call. After one of the cleanest springs on record, the Chinese capital's air quality took an unhealthy plunge for the worse...
That's but one of a hundred new features packed into the 3.0 upgrade, which was unveiled just in time for a midday diversion. (The upgrade is free to iPhone users, but iPod Touch owners will have to pay.) The upgrade does a comprehensive job of closing what few holes there were in the popular smartphone while extending its reputation for being the most cutting-edge gadget in the gizmosphere. (See the Top 11 iPhone Applications...
...Obama has chosen a mainstream progressive, rather than a wild-eyed liberal. And he has chosen a rags-to-riches Hispanic woman. Her life story is inspirational - a political consultant's dream. Since she is certain to be confirmed, there are plenty of smart conservatives who will, by midday Tuesday, have done the political cost-benefit analysis: at a time when Republicans are trying to demonstrate that their party can reach beyond rich white men, what mileage is there in doing anything but celebrating such a historic choice...
...stroll through some of Malé's alleyways brings the crisis up close. "Brown sugar," or low-grade heroin, smuggled past the country's thinly stretched coast guard, is the narcotic of choice, and wiry, gaunt boys lurch in the midday sun from its effects. "Getting drugs," says Mohamed Arif, another ex-user, "is like pizza delivery." Their abundance, according to virtually everyone in Malé, from members of civil society to junkies, can be traced to groups within the old government. Nasheed says that the problem has less to do with the country's law-enforcement capabilities and more...
Rummaging through the closet of her Canaday single, Tal Oppenheimer ’12 searches for a dress. The intense midday sun is banned from her room by heavy curtains as she ruffles through her clothing in search of her favorite gown. Finally, she holds her treasure up with pride—a miniscule turquoise number, bedazzled and glistening despite the shade. It is one of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team’s standard competition gowns...